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I've been keeping what I have private these days, but I'll put this up for a little while

Cool. I guess I'll stick this to the back of the slab and hold onto it. I wonder how many of these still exist. .

I was just about to toss out the box I got my TMNT book in and found this at the bottom while cleaning the attic. Did Mirage ship these books from their printers or did they personally ship them to people? The folder is postmarked July 17, 1984. Was the TMNT 1 in this folder shipped from Mirage? I thought these were only on the stands and if they weren’t does that mean there were more than 3,275 copies.

What did the 181 sell for? I missed the JIM 8.5. Ugggggg....... I'm going to punch myself. My phone had an alert and it was for the wrong date.

Exactly. Other than an auction I'm just as lost. There have been a couple of 8.5s sold. From 7-8 not so many. A 9.0 went for 75k in 2014 so the book is still going up. Since 2013 6 more copies have entered into the census from 7.5 and up. Yup, very few 7.0-7.5 have changed hands. Test your copy at auction and we'll find out Glad you kept your copy and didn't move it last year. I overpaid when it went up on Heritage with this strange feeling it would pop in price. The registration is near perfect. It was non-cream. I bled when I paid for it. Now, I wouldn't sell it. It's just nice to see it's doing well and I wonder if the TV show would entice anyone under the age of 30 to actually buy a physical book and read it.

Exactly. Other than an auction I'm just as lost. There have been a couple of 8.5s sold. From 7-8 not so many. A 9.0 went for 75k in 2014 so the book is still going up. Since 2013 6 more copies have entered into the census from 7.5 and up.

Since there is no data, what is a 7.5 ow/w guesstimate? Zero chipping and well centered.

Wow, that last one gave me a nosebleed

Boris did this one for me. This is an in progress photo. I picked it up last night when he called to say it was finally done. It will be framed next week. It looks a lot better in hand and more vivid. It's not too hard to figure out what cover it was based on

I don't understand your consignment manager's comment. First by breaking open the slab at this point, you are destroying the evidence. Second, the inner well has nothing to do with the tampering. In this case. the outer well and only the outer well was compromised, allowing the culprit to swap out the inner well or the label. The opening of a slab has been discussed on the Boards before. If done carefully, the only evidence you would see is probably that hairline crack you mentioned. The location, inch from the corner is where it pops. Should the consignment manager be charged with a crime? I'm not sure I'm understanding why you find my comments funny. It was mentioned that historically CGC will bring in law enforcement in cases of tampering, as well they should. If the book was tampered with, how is this not fraud ? If the person who swapped the comic had the intent to defraud someone then yes, but no law enforcement agency cares. Who would have jurisdiction over this? Do you think the FBI would get involved because it crosses state lines? No. Good luck even getting someone to file a police report. If I were back in the 75 precinct in NYC and you walked up to the desk officer and said "Someone swapped my comic" you would be laughed out of the building. The owner of the book may be another victim. You can't charge him with anything. You would have to follow the trail of sales until there was an alleged swap. Good luck. Who is going to prosecute this? Only when it gets as big as that baseball card scandal, whatever his name was, will the Feds get involved and that's a big maybe. There are sellers on EBay selling tons of obvious fake pieces of art. Do you see them being lead from their apartments by droves in cuffs? Mycomicshop should just return the book to the owner. If they send it to CGC, if I were the seller, who authorized you to resubmit my book? I gave you an 8 and you sent me back a 4.5 because your opinion contradicted what CGC said it was. Have you ever sent a 9.4 back to CGC because you thought it was a 9.2? Then as the owner of a new 4.5 I would lean on CGC for restitution for their mistake which caused me financial harm since I was NOT the original submitter, an assumption, their TOS doesn't apply to me since I never agreed to them as an original submitter. Best option here is to not be blind when buying a book and realize this is not an 8 and just send it back to the owner and let him deal with CGC if he wants to. If you can't tell this is not an 8 then you deserve to be the new happy owner of it. There was a video on how to pop the corners. I've popped out books and the posts were still good. A touch of glue and I could have put a newpaper in there as a graded book with no signs of tampering. I think this is just a typo by CGC and the person is trying to unload the book asap.

4.5... Because I had a 5.5 that blew that one away. I guess their magic 8-ball got stuck that day.

Beautiful book! Did he have insurance? What did the police say? A big theft like that seems unusual unless they robbed him in general. If it was targeted to just comics it was likely via someone he knew... He had a bunch of gold and silver books non-graded in a few short boxes. Nice stuff too. When I say nice a good amount were 5K+ books. They cut his screen, crow-barred the back window to pop the latch. Some jewelry. Comics. Pillow cases to load up whatever else they thought they could use. I have no idea what his insurance company is saying. Last we spoke they were ok with everything and now they are not. I'm thinking it's best not to let people know what you have. Too many people I know that were straight laced blue and white collar workers all of a sudden are hard core addicts losing everything. I don't need that and I'm sure it was someone he knows. It was too clean. Too opportunistic in a short window that he was away from home.

The red flag is 10k or more you have zero Paypal protection. They get the money even if you're sent a brick. The guy lives 2 hours from me. If someone wants to buy it I can be the middle-man that makes sure it's real; meaning I have the book in my hand and I tell you "yes, I have it in my hand" then whoever the buyer is can send him/her payment. I would expect a nice bottle of wine in return. If he/she tries something stupid, well, it's PA, you figure it out. Don't leave home without it. On a side note 10k for a 3.0?

Maybe people are just over seeing Stan Lee's signature on everything.... -J. I wouldn't personally bid on anything with Stan Lee's signature on it so your customer base could be more limited with SS.

3-9.2 8-9.0 5-8.5

How do you know that? GPA sale 2011 for 25k Found it. Comicconnect. I WANT this copy!!!

There is a 9.2 white out there somewhere!!!!! Where is it?!?!?

Wasn't an 8.0 recently sold? It was cream/ow pages, but still an 8. I lost the link.

I voted 5x because the pricing of them have given even raw collectors enough incentive to have them slabbed to sell. We see them raw all the time here. We know they are out there in large numbers, but the price is still strong because for every copy, raw or slabbed, you know there are 1000 people that want it.

Is Avengers #4 a SA mega-key? It has tanked in higher grades (9.6) and it seems to still be dropping.

Prices on #4 have dumped over the past few years. #1 is still going strong. I think a #4 9.6 went from 70k to under 20k in two years. There haven't been too many other 9.6s since so I'm guessing the downward pressure continues. There is nothing like having a #1 in your collection. The rest are just keys that follow. If you're looking for a true first CA appearance you need to get into GA books and be prepared to bleed for it.

22-25k which means if this auction pops 30k this book is still hot as fire. Final price: $32,166 What was the prior close? I forgot.

With a bitcoin and TOR I can buy armor piercing rockets. I would hate to be that guy in cellblock C saying "Yea, I'm in for buying Teflon bullets for my antique guns with my comic book coins". I'll start hearing banjos playing at lights out.

Daredevil 1 is undervalued and is more of a key than Batman 121.